January 6 - Jalle Jungnell, who was part of the bronze medal winning Swedish wheelchair curling teams at Turin 2006 and Vancouver 2010, has been named to lead the nation's squad heading to Sochi 2014 where they will again be among the favourites for a Paralympic medal.

February 26 - Canada has topped the World Curling Federation's (WCF) wheelchair curling rankings thanks to their world title winning performance at the 2013 World Wheelchair Curling Championship in Russia.

February 15 - Kate Caithness, President of the World Curling Federation (WCF), has claimed that the sport's preparations for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games are "well on schedule" ahead of its first event, which gets underway tomorrow in the Russian city.

September 29 - Canada's Paralympic curling gold medallist Jim Armstrong has been declared elgible to compete again after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) cut an 18 months drugs ban to just six.

March 16 - Jim Armstrong (pictured) has been given an 18 month suspension by the World Curling Federation (WCF) after he tested positive for Tamoxifen, just a year after he was fined for selling counterfeit drugs.

March 8 - Russia's wheelchair curling team captain Oksana Slesarenko (pictured) has been voted February's International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month, topping an all-female shortlist which was composed to celebrate International Women's Day today.

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Fact of the day

During the Italian rowing team's celebration after winning the quadruple sculls at Seoul 1988, David Tizzano was thrown into the water and lost his Olympic gold medal on the muddy bottom of the Han River. A South Korean diver, working as a security guard at the regatta course, retrieved it after a 50-minute search. Eight years later, in Atlanta, Tizzano won a second gold medal in the double scull.

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